Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1887-10-08
LIFE AT LONG BRANCH.
A DAYS DolNes At THE FASH
ioNAeLE SEASIDE RESORT.

Going to the Early Train-Lawn Tennis
and Horseback Riding-Bathing Begins
at II o'Clock-Afternoon DrivinR-Din.
ner and the Evening Hours.
People who live in Rome would find it
difficult to pass the day as they would in
Paris, and a New Yorker in Florence
cannot live a day as he would in his own
metropolis. Neither can a man, with all
his victories over nature, pass q day in the
Alps as he would on the banks of the
Amazon. And so a man cannot carry out
a day at Long Branch as he would at
White Sulphur Springs. He does at Long
Branch what the place permits him to do.
Generally speaking, the summer popula-
ton is up at 2 O'Clock, because the great
majority Of the meh got to New York every
day to attend to business and they start
at about 8.
Going to the train is the first business
Of the day, and o pretty sight it is to see
the ladies in their fresh, white, morning
gowns, driving their carts and phaetons
down to the station with their husbands.
The harness and horses and carriages,
fresh from the hands of industrious grooms
and coachmen, and unspotted as yet by
the dust Of the day, glisten under the early
morning sun. The air is cool and invig-
Grating, and the hustle and confusion
about the station has a fashionable pic.
turesqueness about it that is charming to
the student Of society. After the bust.
ness of the morning exodus is done, lawn
tennis comes to enliven the day. The
game is exceedingly popular at Long
Branch, where the fine lawns, of which /
have spoken, furnish admirable courts.
About 8 o'clock in the morning you will
see young men In white fannels and
young ladies in loose gowns running about
on the smooth turf, and entering into the
game with an earnestness which fully
atones for any lack Of skill. Besides ten
mis-, horseback riding claims attention.
The roads at the Branch are ex.
cellent for this exercise, and scores
of equestrians may be seen every day
taking q morning canter. Many Of the
ladies choose this part of the day to do
their shopping, and East Long Branch 10
made very lively.
About II O'Clock bathing begins to rise
above the horizon. At the hotels the Gus.
tomary time for bathing is at low tide,
but as the water is seldom so high or so
rough IN the summer that people cannot
battle at all hours, most of them select the
morning for their dip. The refreshing in.
fuence of the bath prepares one to pass,
with equanimity, the warm hours of the
early afternoon, before the sea breeze
springs up. At some of the hotels the
bands give morning concerts at eleven.
and those ladies who prefer to devote their
afternoons to bathing, sit in the parlors,
listen to the music, and put forth q con-
tinuOus flow of small talk. After luncheon
most people ut tho Branch take the day
%leisurely until 4 o'clock. The afternoon
driving then begins and continues until
about $3.50. The scene on Ocean avenue
at this time of the day is q most animated
one. AT times the drive is crowded SO
that carriages are compelled to proceed
cautiously in order to avoid collisions.
The evening trains from New York
and Philadelphia come in and carriages
are dashing to and from the stations,
while the hotel stages lumber along
laden with incoming guests. The steam.
boat lands at the pier, and there is a great
rushing from all points of excursionists
who have come down from New York 70,
the day and are eager to get seats for the
return trip. Sailing vessels of all kinds
are seen gliding along up and down the
coast, and southern steamers pass by, gen.
orally running close in shore, dipping
their flags, blowing their whistles and
firing their guns. The men who have
been all day in the steaming hot city rush
down to the beach, don their bathing
suits, and plunge into the surf. The
whole shore front is alive and brillian,
with the handsome costumes of ladies, the
glitter of mounted harness, and the flash
of, polished wheels.
By and by, as the dinner hour ap
proaches, the hustle and confusion die
away, or rather, transfer themselves tc
the hotel dining rooms, where the evening
dinner is attended to in a manner which
shows that the sea air is truly p~rovocativ.
of hunger. The evenings are usually
passed in dancing, or looking at other
people dance. The hotel bands play in the
parlors every night, and when it is not toe
warm, waltzing is INDUCED in to q
great extent. Saturday evening is the
fashionable night, when people from the
cottages 60 to the hotels to dance, and
some little show of dressing is made. As
a general thing, however, people do moi
dress especially for the dancing, and full
evening attire is the exception. The mer
who spend the day at business do not fee
it incumbent upon them to put on theil
dress suits for the evening, and the ladies
are, therefore, compelled to permit them
to dance in business costume, if they *
desire.-W. F. Henderson in Outing.